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Puree ricotta in a food processor until smooth. Scraping down the sides. Add the sugar and puree for approximately 1 minute so that it is not grainy. Add the eggs, vanilla, orange zest and salt. Puree until smooth and combined.
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NH's immigrants: Welcome the ones from Mass.EDITORIAL STAFF
August 18. 2014 8:10PM
A New York Times graphic from last week has some people once again asserting a myth about New Hampshire politics.
The Times showed that a quarter of Granite Staters were born in Massachusetts. Predictably, commenters claimed that this shows how New Hampshire turned more left-leaning. The opposite is true.
As we have pointed out before, voting outcomes and party registrations show unmistakably that immigrants from Massachusetts consistently vote against big government. By and large, these people are tax refugees. They settle predominantly in border towns, where they tend to vote for Republicans and against tax hikes. If New Hampshire had more of them, it would be less purple and more red today.
The Times' graphic showed the percentage of Granite Staters born outside of New Hampshire rising steadily from the 1960s through 1990, then rising more slowly in the decades since. In 1900, 60 percent of Granite Staters were native-born. In 1960, it was 62 percent. By 1980 it was 49 percent. Today it is 42 percent. This is a sign of success, not failure. By contrast, Massachusetts' population was 55 percent native-born in 1900 and is 63 percent native-born today. As New Hampshire has attracted new residents, Massachusetts has driven its own residents away. Its main in-migration comes from other high-tax Northeastern states. New Hampshire's problem is not that so many Bay Staters have moved here. It is that the flow has slowed in the past quarter century, which indicates that our state is less competitive than it used to be.

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QUESTION: How effective are smoking cessation interventions delivered by nurses?
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Studies were identified by searching the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Review Group specialised register (which includes studies identified from Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, and PsycLIT, and by hand searches of specialist journals, conference proceedings, and bibliographies) using the terms nurse or health visitor. CINAHL was also searched from 1983 using the terms nursing, smoking cessation, and intervention.
Study selection
Randomised trials were selected if they evaluated the effectiveness of nurse delivered smoking cessation interventions (defined as provision of advice or other information and strategies to help patients stop smoking) for adults; had ≥2 treatment groups; and had ≥6 months of follow up. Studies were excluded if the sample included pregnant women, if they compared advice alone with advice plus nicotine replacement therapy, or if no outcome data were provided on smoking cessation rates.
Data extraction
Data were extracted on study setting and design, sample size, definition of a smoker, description of the intervention and its intensity, outcomes, and biochemical validation. Main outcome was smoking cessation, defined using the strictest available criteria for abstinence (eg, sustained cessation rather than point prevalence). Studies were assessed for quality and rated for efforts to control for selection bias.
Main results
19 studies met the selection criteria; 17 involved patients from hospitals or primary care settings and 18 involved adults with diagnosed health problems. 14 studies reported smoking cessation validated by biochemical analysis of body fluids or expired carbon monoxide. Meta-analysis included 15 studies (n=7912) and was done on an intention to treat basis. At longest follow up, patients who received advice from a nurse were more likely to stop smoking than those who received usual care (table⇓).
Nursing interventions (primarily advice to stop smoking) increase smoking cessation rates among adults.
This meta-analysis by Rice and Stead provides a review of smoking cessation interventions delivered by nurses to patients in hospital and outpatient settings. The findings lend support for smoking cessation counselling by nurses but provide little direction for choosing the optimal set of strategies for a smoking cessation programme (eg, self help manuals, individual counselling, or telephone follow up).
The authors classified cessation strategies into low and high intensity interventions based primarily on the duration of the intervention. Surprisingly, they observed that low intensity rather than high intensity smoking cessation strategies led to successful cessation. A review of the high intensity interventions indicates that many of them required >1 visit by a patient to a healthcare setting (eg, multiple sessions over time) or involved group interventions. It is not possible to determine whether these factors produced the differential effect of high versus low intensity interventions. Furthermore, the meta-analysis did not take into account other factors known to influence the effect of cessation interventions, including patient characteristics (eg, readiness to change behaviour, perceived risk of smoking, and type of events triggering behaviour change); contextual factors (eg, partner and family support for cessation, and social norms); and features of the intervention (eg, individual versus group counselling, and the theoretical model underlying the intervention).
The focus of this meta-analysis was the nurse as a vehicle for providing the intervention. A previous review showed that smoking cessation interventions provided by several healthcare professionals have a stronger effect than interventions delivered by a single provider.1 Nurses should therefore strive to ensure that all members of the healthcare team provide a consistent message about the importance of smoking cessation.
A central question raised by this review is whether smoking cessation counselling by nurses simply provides a means of reaching a larger number of patients, or suggests an opportunity to improve smoking cessation interventions. It is perhaps time to capitalise on the strengths nurses bring to patient care situations and use these to enhance cessation efforts. This might lead to interventions that are timed to better reflect patients' readiness to change, address contextual influences for individual lifestyle choices, and involve partners and other family members in supporting smoking cessation efforts.
Sources of funding: UK National Health Service Research & Development Programme; American Heart Association.
For correspondence: Professor V H Rice, College of Nursing, Wayne State University, 5557 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. Fax +1 313 577 5777.
A modified version of this abstract appears in Evidence-Based Mental Health.
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Brad Joseph Remer, 62, of Arco, Idaho, passed away on June 28, 2011 in Twin Bridges, Montana after doing what he loved, competing at a rodeo.
Brad was born on June 15, 1949 in Townsend, Montana to Clarence Edward "Ream" and Elizabeth Illene Remer. Montana is where he resided, until his parents settled in the Twin Falls area. He graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1967.
He retired from the Ironworkers Local 732 at the age of 59, after 36 years of service. He worked in various areas around Idaho. Some of the projects he worked on were the Teton Dam and the Perrine Bridge.
Brad met his sweetheart, Pam Covington, while working on the Teton Dam in Teton, Idaho. They were married on September 14, 1973. Together they have three children: Shelly, Shane, and Brandy.
From a very young age, Brad was drawn into the sport of rodeo by his love for horses. He was a member of the IMPRA and Senior Pro Rodeo Associations, where he competed in calf roping and team roping. Brad loved to travel to all his favorite rodeos with the love of his life, Pam.
Brad loved spending time with his family. He enjoyed being around his grand kids and always enjoyed supporting them in their activities. Anyone and everyone was welcome to come spend time and rope with him at his favorite place, the Boot R Arena.
He is survived by his wife, Pam, his mom, Liz, his brother Terry (Bonnie) Daniel of Avon Park, Florida, his three children, Shelly (Alan) Shaffer of Moore, Shane (Shelle Dawn) Remer of Shelley, and Brandy (John) Waymire, of Arco, and his 11 grandchildren, Alex, Hillary, Alyssa, Dustyn, Rocky, Bailee, Brett, Raymee, Brayden, Brenna, and Landyn. He was preceded in death by his father, Ream, and his grandson, Blake John.
Funeral services will be held at Butte Middle School auditorium on Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 1:00PM. Visitation with friends and family will be the day of the service from 11:00 am to 12:45pm. Interment will be in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Arco under the direction of the Anderson Family Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to the Brad Remer Memorial Scholorship Fund. Donations can be made at East Idaho Credit Union, P.O. Box 184, Arco, ID 83213.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Boehner, the top Republican in the U.S. Congress, predicts a wave of litigation if a bill banning discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender workers becomes law, but states with similar laws report relatively few such complaints.
Warnings from the speaker of the House of Representatives about the bill - headed for Senate approval this week - also contrast with how such claims are handled by courts, enforcement agencies and employers, lawyers told Reuters.
As of April, 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies already had non-discrimination policies for sexual orientation, and 57 percent had such policies for gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay and transgender rights groups.
Moreover, attorneys said, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the courts already use current laws to combat gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace.
The EEOC enforces the country's federal employment anti-discrimination laws.
Tico Almeida, president of Freedom to Work, a group that lobbies against gay, lesbian and transgender discrimination, said the main advantage of a federal statute is that it would replace a "patchwork" of laws with a single clear-cut standard.
"We'll be avoiding possible circuit splits and conflicting decisions by federal courts about whether they agree with the EEOC ... . It will decrease the need for litigation over the legal issue," Almeida said.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, is expected to pass the Senate, led by Democrats, within days. But its fate in the Republican-controlled House is uncertain.
Boehner has indicated the legislation may hit a roadblock there. His office cites a September 2013 study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. It said ENDA would require the EEOC to hire 110 more employees at a four-year implementation cost of $47 million.
"We are concerned the bill creates a new right of action based on vague, undefined language that does not exist elsewhere in federal non-discrimination law. It would undoubtedly lead to an increase in lawsuits, as indicated by the CBO report," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel told Reuters.
Boehner wields enormous power by controlling which bills go to the House floor for a vote and which do not, meaning he could block ENDA from coming to the floor for action.
Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Of those, 18 also ban discrimination based on gender identity.
Two studies by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that, in states that have such bans, sexual orientation and gender identity claims make up a small percentage of total workplace discrimination claims filed by employees with administrative agencies.
Both GAO reports said there were "relatively few" complaints based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The most recent GAO report came out in July. It showed that in states that ban sexual orientation discrimination, such claims accounted for 1.8 percent to 6.7 percent of the administrative employment-discrimination complaints filed last year. Gender identity claims, where covered by statute, were an even smaller proportion.
In Colorado, 35 out of a total 516 job discrimination claims filed statewide involved sexual orientation, while just one involved gender identity discrimination in fiscal year 2011-2012.
In fiscal 2007-2008, when sexual orientation and transgender became a protected status in Colorado, there were 21 sexual orientation and two gender identity claims filed with state agencies. No such category existed before then, so there were no claims.
In California GAO found that 1,104 of 19,839 employment discrimination administrative complaints filed in calendar year 2012 were sexual orientation claims. California does not track gender identity complaints separately.
"The GAO reports are hugely helpful ... . We bring them to every meeting and use them to dispel the myth that ENDA will create a flood of litigation," Almeida said.
Almeida also said the Senate bill does not permit a type of lawsuit known as a "disparate impact" claim, which allows plaintiffs to sue for practices that have a discriminatory result, even if it was unintentional.
There are also exceptions in the bill for religious organizations and for workplaces with fewer than 15 employees.
Attorneys who advise employers said that as a practical matter, the EEOC and some federal appeals courts have already established that sexual orientation and gender identity are classes protected from workplace discrimination.
In a unanimous, bipartisan decision last year in Macy v. Holder, the EEOC said that the 1964 civil rights statute that covers employment discrimination claims applied to a transgender individual who had sought a job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
"So what does ENDA do for employers? Certainly in one regard it would clarify and make abundantly certain that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited," said attorney Denise Visconte of Littler Mendelson, a firm that represents employers. "There wouldn't be this patchwork of laws, that's really the biggest thing."
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How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube
We've been getting a lot of questions ever since our GMAT Choose Your Own Adventure video went up. Well, one question, really: How can I make one for my students?
Answer: It's easy! Youtube has a great tool called Spotlight that lets you make any video interactive. It's really handy for lessons and quizzes. Essentially, you can ask students a question — or a series of questions — and when they answer show them a personalized video response according to how they did.
Quizzes aren't always the most exciting things in the world, so this adds a bit of adventure to the experience. This kind of personalization works great for our GMAT prep course, but any teacher can use the process to create a fun, interactive Youtube lesson.
Here's how to do it.
1. Get to know the Spotlight Tool
In your Youtube account (they're easy to set up if you don't have one), take some time to check out the Spotlight tool. We found this great tutorial that walks you through the process, so you can start by watching that.
2. Add a video link
Spotlights let you create a clickable area in any part of your video that links to another video on Youtube. In our case, we first wanted to give students a choice between three questions, presented by three different teachers. Our first job, then, was to film a video that presented that choice — then annotate it so they could pick a question by clicking on the teacher of their choice.
For our first video, the Edit Annotation screen looked like this:
The box makes Jen clickable when you're watching the video, and the link connects to a later video where she presents her question. So the next question is: What kind of quiz do you want to make?
3. Plan out your quiz experience
You can keep this pretty simple. We wanted a quiz where students could pick their question, then on each question choose the answer they thought was the best fit. If they got it right, great! If not, they'd get an explanation of where they went wrong, and a chance to click and try again.
We also threw in a "hint" box where they could get extra help, and a bonus video for each right answer. So we ended up with a video plan that looked something like this:
Each box is a short video — all we had to do was shoot them, then start linking them together!
4. Annotate away!
So, back to that first video we annotated. We put a Spotlight around Jen, so now when you get to the first video you click on her to choose a question:
For Jen's question, we had her read through the problem, then ask students to click on the answer choice they thought was right.
To make that work, we just had to go back and add annotations to the answer choices:
That's a few steps, but a pretty simple concept: There's a video for each question and answer choice, so whenever you see an answer you like you can click right to it.
When you find the right answer, you get a quick explanation of why it's correct, plus a link back to the original video so you can choose another question.
Notice the box around Jen? We also added a bonus video to each right answer just for fun. In this case, you can see Arlo's sweet dunking skills:
And that's it! Once you connect all your videos together, your students get a practice quiz that feels like a treasure hunt instead of just homework.
Here's the full video if you want to check it out again:
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He visited USC last summer. "I like the campus a lot," he said. "It's different as well. I talked to G.A. Mangus today and he asked me when I'm coming back. I'm going to go in April during spring practice."
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Peals of laughter filled the room as clouds of flour settled on the stainless steel tables, surrounded by a bevy of giggling 6-year old little girls. "Oohs", "aahs" and a few gasps soon followed as Nancy Schwab, owner of Petite Chef, took the mundane task of separating an egg and turned it into exactly the kind of "gross humor" that children love as the gooey eggwhite oozed through the "nose" of a clever kitchen gadget. The energy in the room fizzed up like the froth of a root beer float and was matched only by the pure energy of Nancy herself, a natural teacher and lifelong-lover of cooking who opened this novel business in 2010.
Located on 160 Greenwich Avenue, a stone's throw from the Warwick Mall, Nancy's Petite Chef "kids-kitchen" studio is a bright, sunny, and cheerful - but mostly - a spotless setting for children's birthday parties, book club and/or bachelorette parties, and even ladies' night out cooking parties! When local mom Alexis Cobb wanted to celebrate her daughter's 6th grade birthday at a destination that was unique, creative, hands-on and memorable, she followed the recommendation of a friend and found her way here to Nancy's Petite Chef. For a flat fee, she was given a package deal that included custom invitations, all the ingredients for a dessert to be made by up to 12 children, two hours worth of guided instruction, chef hats for each guest, a take-home dessert and all the paper goods/drinks needed. While birthday girl Lindsay chose a cookie pizza, there were other dessert options available too. Mrs. Cobb gloated about her experience with Nancy, describing her as "wonderful to work with, quick to answer my emails and calls, and full of enthusiasm" - everything you need to endure the preparations (and expectations) of a party for twelve excitable school-age children.
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This past Friday in Asheville, North Carolina was the second annual Blessings on the River: an Oshun Veneration & Concert. Held in concert with rites performed at Asheville's sister city of Osogbo, Nigeria, proceeds from donations during the veneration benefited the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove. The event was sponsored by the Zamani Refuge African Culture Center, with event altars constructed by Mother Grove Goddess Temple. Valeria Osunyemi Watson-Doost from the Zamani Refuge, herself a priestess of Oshun, has posted a four-part video series from the event on Youtube.
Here are the links for part 2, part 3, and part 4. You can also watch footage from the inaugural event last year.
This looks like an excellent example of how a US-based Goddess/Pagan community can participate in an event for the benefit of indigenous pre-Christian religions in far-flung parts of the globe. Local writer Byron Ballard, a member of the Mother Grove Goddess Temple, and blogger for the Asheville Citizen-Times, noted that the event was "a terrific opportunity to connect with people in our community who practice a beautiful spirituality". I imagine that participants in Asheville and Osogbo have both been enriched by this experience, and that practitioners of Yoruba Traditional Religion have achieved a kind of outreach and understanding rarely found in the United States.
As the modern Paganism movement become an increasingly international phenomenon, we are going to get more chances like this to interact, share, and make alliances with indigenous faiths and revived Paganisms across the globe. Outreach efforts to European indigenous faiths, African traditional religions (and African diasporic faiths), and indigenous faiths in the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East may allow advances we couldn't achieve alone. I will be tracking this phenomenon in the months to come.


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Windowed Plexiglas panels, which can be purchased for this case, make a relatively uninspiring black box really come to life and the red interior coupled with red LED lamps really makes for a nice view. You can get Lancool K62 Midi-Tower - Red Dragon Window Edition for about 90 euro, here.
Since we're talking about cost-down versions of Lian-Li cases, some things had to suffer, so you might find some details that seem as if they lack finishing touches. We're mostly talking about the inside of the case, where upon closer look you'll find that HDD brackets seem a little cheapish or that the rubber feet leave marks on the floor.
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Winning the Sao Paulo 300 for a fourth straight time became a lot harder for Will Power after a mishap in qualifying sent him to the back of the grid for Sunday's IndyCar race.
"It's going to be very tough," Power said. "We would have to be lucky, have a lot of things going our way. It's hard when you are starting back there."
The Australian, who won all three previous races in Brazil, will start only 22nd after his Penske team took a risk that turned costly for both of its drivers on Saturday.
Helio Castroneves, the points leader and a home-crowd favorite, will start 18th on the streets of Sao Paulo.
"Tough break today to not be able to qualify the way we wanted," Power said. "We felt pretty good going into the qualifying and unfortunately didn't have time to run the lap we wanted."
He and Castroneves dropped out of pole contention when Penske decided to try to take advantage of a faster track in the final minutes of the first qualifying session, but it turned out they never had a chance to post a fast lap after a mechanical problem with the car of James Jakes prompted a red flag.
Jakes' car stopped on the track with an apparent engine failure and the driver got out when it appeared the engine was on fire, forcing race officials to stop the section when the Penske drivers were in the middle of their fast lap.
"That's always the risk you take," four-time champion Dario Franchitti said. "That's a risk we all take when we wait until the last possible moment to go on track. In order to gain that advantage of running at the end of the session, there's the risk of what happened to the Penske guys today. It's happened I think to all of us before. Today it happened to them."
To Penske's advantage, both drivers ended up saving tires by not running the entire qualifying session and will have newer rubber compared to most of the field on Sunday. In addition, the Anhembi circuit is one of the few street tracks which could offer the type of passing opportunities that they will need to make.
"It's a long race and it's a nice track which will give us a chance to move up," Power said.
There's no doubt that Power knows his way around the temporary track. He was dominant the three times he won in Sao Paulo, and this time looked poised for another good weekend after leading both practice sessions earlier Saturday.
The Australian is in need of a good result in Brazil after struggling in the first three races of the year, leaving him eighth in the drivers' standings. Power was the pole winner in the season opening race in St. Petersburg and was in the front row in Alabama and in Long Beach, but he hasn't won in 14 races, since his victory in Sao Paulo last year.
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The Expendables 2
Can you imagine if a bomb had gone off during the shoot of The Expendables 2, and rid the world of – take a deep breath – Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris? To say that there would be a year of global mourning would be an understatement.
Thankfully, apart from some bruises and (one imagines) some bruised egos, no action heroes were injured in the making of this follow up to the rather successful original with Simon West (Con Air) taking over directing duties from Stallone. But don't be fooled into thinking that Sly is just showing up for the paycheck: he wrote the script for the sequel (don't forget, he was nominated for an Oscar for writing Rocky).
The plot this time around is far simpler. After being assembled by Willis' Mr. Church, the motley crew of "expendables" is tasked with what seems like an easy job – get a kidnapped Chinese billionaire out of Nepal – but naturally things don't go according to plan. Loved ones will be lost and revenge shall be sought. Twas ever thus.
But if you think that The Expendables 2 is in for a kicking from the critics, you'd be wrong (and not just because they wouldn't want to upset them). Sure, Empire's conclusion that the film is "a morass of dodgy plotting, indifferent brutality and limp character-work" takes no prisoners, but Variety feels that while it's "redundant, bombastic and cheekily self-aware" The Expendables 2 "is also savvy enough to supply its own auto-critique." And The Hollywood Reporter positively falls over itself, noting that the movie is "taut, humorous and attractively packaged… both fleet footed and engaging enough to captivate audiences with more than just nonstop action." Decent reviews, the prospect of healthy box office and the return of Arnie to the big screen after his foray into politics surely means that a threequel is all but assured. These expendables are more like The Dependables.


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Objective: Recent scientific findings have re-invigorated interest in examining the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the major inhibitory central nervous system neurotransmitter, in chronic pain conditions.
Decreased inhibitory neurotransmission is a proposed mechanism in the pathophysiology of chronic pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia (FM).
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that decreased levels of insular and anterior cingulate GABA would be present in FM patients and the concentration of this neurotransmitter would be correlated with pressure pain thresholds.
Methods: Sixteen FM patients and 17 age- and sex-matched healthy controls underwent pressure pain testing and a 3 Tesla proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy session in which the right anterior insula, right posterior insula, anterior cingulate and occipital cortex were examined at rest.
Compared with healthy controls, FM patients had significantly lower levels of GABA in the right anterior insula (mean±SD 1.17±0.24 arbitrary institutional units versus 1.42±0.32 arbitrary institutional units; p=0.016).
There was a trend toward increased GABA levels in the anterior cingulate of FM patients versus healthy controls (p=0.06).
No significant differences between groups were detected in the posterior insula or occipital cortex (p>0.05 for all comparisons).
Within the right posterior insula, higher levels of GABA were positively correlated with pressure pain thresholds for the FM patients (rho=0.63; p=0.02).
Conclusion: Diminished inhibitory neurotransmission resulting from lower concentrations of GABA within the right anterior insula may play a role in the pathophysiology of FM and other central pain syndromes.
Source: Arthritis & Rheumatism, Sep 13, 2011. PMID: 21913179, by Foerster BR, Petrou M, Edden RA, Phd PC, Schmidt-Wilcke T, Lowe SE, Phd SE, Clauw DJ, Harris RE. Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Email: firstname.lastname@example.com]


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I was lurking around for a while and decided to join. I did some damage to my credit during my college years and I've been working on rebuilding. I started really working on it at the beginning of the year with my scores all being in the low 500s. My scores are now Experian 641/ TransUnion 617/ Equifax 596. I recently got two new credit cards for a total of four. Once I got these cards my experian score went up by 43 points in one month while the others stayed the same. I can't get them to budge at all!
This is the bad stuff that is currently on my reports:
I should probably note that in the past two years I've had four major surgeries that have led to the medical collections. Now that Im healthy and able, would like to fix my mistakes.
This is the good stuff on my reports:
So my main question is, what should I do now? I want to get those medical collections off. If I pay these and get them removed will it help my scores? I paid off one credit card collection and it reported as paid in full but it hurt my score. Should I just focus on paying everything else on time?
My fiance and I would like to purchase a house in the next year or so. His scores are 800+ across the board and I would like to get mine as high as possible before then.
Thanks for your help!!
This is the bad stuff that is currently on my reports:
- $50 medical collection from 4/2007
- Send a PFD
- $400 medical collection from 2010
- Send a PFD
- $80 medical collection from 2010 (Paid in full, waiting to see if they will delete as promised)
- Keep an eye on this one, hopefully it will be removed
- $190 medical collection from 2010
- Send a PFD
- $212 collection ( doesnt list a company, no clue what it is so it has been disputed)
- Where did you get your report from? Have you gone to www.annualcreditreport.com
- $116 medical collection from 2010
- Send a PFD
- $39 medical collection (Trying to find out HOW to pay this company, can't locate)
- I ask again where you got your report from.
- $967 credit card collection from 2005
- $500 credit card collection from 2005
- What is the DOFD of these 2? Is it from 2005? If so then they are close to falling off.
So my main question is, what should I do now? I want to get those medical collections off. If I pay these and get them removed will it help my scores? I paid off one credit card collection and it reported as paid in full but it hurt my score. Should I just focus on paying everything else on time?
Pay everything on time. You've got some positive TLs going now, so garden those well. Yes, removing these medical collections and the 2 CC collections will give you a big boost. Just paying them off doesn't removed the negative status. Try for those PFDs.
Hi Alhill4,
I am a WF Team member also.
Just wanted to wish you good luck on your journey. Do as muc research as possible. There is a lot of great information here. I was able to find a method to a particular collection agency to get them, removed in 3 days. Every collection agency and creditor is different. The best way is type in the agency name and do a search. You should be able to find others post with their experiences regarding that particular agency.
DO a search for "HIPPA"
a lot of people seem to be using that method to get rid of collection accounts on their credit reports
Good luck!
*medical collections*
Medical collections are fairly easy to get deleted. The objective is to negotiate a PFD, pay for deletion with the agency. These agencies buy the debt and make money when the debt is paid off. So in short, they want you to pay the amount and you want it deleted. Call, and write the company, the phone calls are recorded and ask them to delete the account if you agree to pay it in full.
Yes, they can delete it. Some people say that nothing can be deleted on your credit report, but it can, and has. There are numerous templates for pay for deletion, just search here and there might also be info from an other person who has dealt with the same collector, just check on these boards. Getting collections deleted will jump your score tremendously.
Ive been monitoring my scores through identity theft protection through my employer which I know isnt completely accurate. I pulled annualcreditreport.com today and Equifax doesnt list ANY medical collections, just the 2 credit cards that were charged off and 1 that I closed with it being paid as agreed. Experian and Transunion show everything including the medical collections. At least now I know who the original companies are! The two credit cards should fall off around June 2013.
I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me to get those medical collections gone!
Thanks for your help
Thank you so much!


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Imperious Slitch
Imperious Slitch was born from ash and brimstone. His fiery personality is one of dominance and ego.
In conversation, he is quick to point out his many abilities. Mention that you have a knack for carpentry: "I can do that!". Suggest you have a talent for smelting: "Oh HO, what I've smelted in my day!". Comment on your degree in architecture: "You've built bridges, while I've built kingdoms! And then destroyed them simply because I was in a foul mood *evil laughter*".
Needless to say he isn't a favourite around these parts. I've heard the other minions plotting his demise. And so has Imperious Slitch. His reaction?
"If you're going to plot to disembowel someone, only a fool would use a dagger. It's an obvious tool! Instead, I would use a crochet hook. Or a mouldy toothbrush. Or a spoon! *evil laughter*"


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Growing up in the United States, I did not learn much Irish history at all. In my Catholic elementary school, we learned a bit about St. Patrick every March. In my public high school, the Irish famine was the only Irish history topic covered. Most of my education about Irish history was contained in the telling of family tales. My own family's history mirrors much of Irish history in that religious strife divided my ancestral Large and Kavanagh families. When I was a young girl, my father and grandmother would tell me stories of strife between the families of my great great grandparents' because of their religious differences. In the late 1960's, I would sit in my grandmother's living room and watch the violence in the North on the news. Grandmom (whose own grandmother was from County Tyrone) would say, "That's us. That's where we are from." For me, Irish history and family history could not be separated.
How does a family history researcher, not educated in Ireland, learn about Irish history? I know a few researchers who complain that the subject is so vast, they simply give up trying to learn. But, at the least, researchers can learn enough Irish history to aid their research and write their family stories. Start with learning in the form that suits you best. I know some researchers who like to absorb a bit of Irish history and culture through novels and historical fiction. Others read the great tomes by Tim Pat Coogan. Of course, many of us surf the web for information.
I often browse TheWildGeese.com website to add to my own knowledge of Irish history and emigration. I like the wide array of topics covered by The Wild Geese and have found genealogical record sources by following up on some of the historical tidbits I have read on the site. The site is branching out into genealogy with a blog directed at Irish family historians. The links are below.
I was very excited this past week to be interviewed for their newsletter. You can find the interview and the newsletter at the link below. The newsletter is free and sent via email. (I must disclose that I did win a $10 gift certificate to the Wild Geese shop when I signed up for the newsletter. Sign up and maybe you, too, will have a bit of Irish luck!).


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Righthaven Appeals The Idea That Using Entire Work Could Be Fair Use
from the and-then-cites-a-case-that-proves-it-wrong dept
- The judge erred in ruling on fair use at this point in the process.
- The judge's fair use analysis itself was wrong
The second argument focuses on the actual fair use analysis, and suggests that using an entire work cannot be considered fair use. It relies, almost entirely on the Worldwide Church of God case in which the appeals court ruled that a church was infringing on another church's book, by distributing the whole thing, despite it being a nonprofit. The two key issues here are whether or not the non-profit status matters, as well as whether or not it can still be fair use when the whole thing is used. The WCOG case said that the full use was not fair use and that even as a non-profit, since it was used for seeking donations, it worked against fair use.
While I have trouble with the reasoning in the WCOG case on many fronts, I'm not sure that it will help Righthaven all that much here. The distribution of the book in that case was much more closely tied to raising funds than a nonprofit posting a news article on its blog. Claiming otherwise is a stretch. As for the 100% use, Righthaven has very little argument here at all. Multiple courts have found that full item use can still be fair use... including in one of the cases Righthaven cites for its own argument, Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Moral Majority, Inc.,. In fact, if you read that ruling, you'll see the court admitting that while it had suggested in the past that wholesale copying shouldn't be fair use, in this case it was reminded that "copying of an entire work does not preclude fair use." In other words, the very case Righthaven cites seems to argue against its own point here. But isn't that just like Righthaven?


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Dear Smiley: One morning during our recent visit to Ipswich, Mass., granddaughter Celina Satter was being rushed to get ready for school.
From the bathroom, she lamented, "Being 5 is not easy. People are always telling you what to do: eat, brush your teeth, fix your hair, get dressed.
"Then at school somebody tells you to do this, do that, keep quiet, stand in line, walk slowly. It is just not easy being 5."
I replied, "If you think being 5 is hard, just wait until you are 62 like Papa and me."
Her quick comeback, "No, Gam, you get to stay home all day and play games on your iPad."
Well, I guess there's a little truth there!
Gifts you can't wrap
Dear Smiley: As I reflect on 2012 and gifts received throughout the year and look forward to 2013, I'm reminded of the many gifts we all have the opportunity to receive daily:
The beauty of nature's flora and fauna; the majestic sky with its ever-changing clouds creating an unfolding canvas of beautiful pictures; the beauty of a person's smile; the wonder in a child's eyes.
Although tragedy strikes each of us in many ways, these gifts help us to meet life's challenges.
Fish story
Dear Smiley: Thirty-odd years ago we took a Sunday afternoon drive, way out in the country.
On a dirt road we passed a little church that was having a fundraiser.
Hand-painted on a piece of plywood, the sign read "Fish Sandwich. Pay as moved."
My wife and I were "moved" to make a small donation to the congregation, many of whom were huddled around a huge cast-iron pot.
I asked for two fish sandwiches, and in less than five minutes witnessed the entire culinary procedure.
The cook pulled up a fish basket from a nearby pond and grabbed two bream, each about twice the size of a robust cocahoe minnow.
The live bream then were rinsed in tap water, rolled in cornmeal, and dropped into the iron pot filled with boiling lard.
Swiftly the fish were pulled from the grease and slapped between two pieces of white bread. (Evidently their custom did not include ketchup, mayonnaise, etc.)
Finally, each sandwich was wrapped in a paper towel and proudly presented to me.
We left feeling somewhat virtuous for supporting the church.
I still wonder how that fish sandwich would have tasted.
Baton Rouge
He loved to laugh
Dear Smiley: How sweet and special it was to see your funny story about my father, Tommy Gibbens, in your column.
Of course, the family is missing him so very much, especially during the Christmas season.
Daddy was well known for all of his funny and true stories that he loved to tell and often retold.
More than once he went to an outdoor pool-side party in old clothes and shoes (no one realized this but my mother).
Then he would jump in the pool fully dressed and watch all the other guests do the same in their good clothes.
He would get out and get dressed in the better clothes he had left in the car.
Everyone else went home wet, and he had a good laugh.
Thank you for keeping his name alive — he so loved family, friends, life and a funny story.
Baton Rouge
No, that's litter-acy
Dear Smiley: My daughter, Judy Mills, who taught third-grade reading, one day told the class that the school would celebrate Literacy Day — each student could dress in costume as their favorite character in a book and participate in a school-wide parade.
One student spoke up and said, "Mrs. Mills, does that mean we are going around the schoolyard and pick up trash?"
Baton Rouge
Moving hair story
Dear Smiley: About your hair loss stories:
Years ago, while I was shaving in pajama bottoms, my son, age 5, was watching.
He said, "Dad, I know why you don't have any hair. It's all under your arms."
This was 52 years ago, and my son is now a Ph.D.
Stuck for life
Dear Smiley: I got this one from my friend Rhonda, who teaches art at UL Lafayette:
"Enjoying my drive to Monroe with 16-year-old son Dylan on the way to a soccer game, we discuss girls.
"He informs me that he doesn't like clingy ones.
"I look over at him with a big goofy smile: 'But I'm kinda clingy.'
"He responds, 'Yeah, but I can't break up with you.' "
Write Smiley at email@example.com. He can also be reached by fax at (225) 388-0351 or mail at P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821.


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Sifted: Decadent Hazelnut Cake, Bagel Bombs and Pretzel Fried Chicken
By: Lauren Miyashiro
- Adventures in Cooking's hazelnut cake with maple pecan glaze is just as striking as it is delicious. If you like German chocolate cake, you'll love this.
- Morning buns are flaky, buttery and fluffy all at once. Sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and orange zest, Cennella Vita's recipe is fit for any special occasion.
- Leave it to a New Yorker to master the art of bagel bombs! Mostly Food Stuffs alters the Momofuku Milk Bar original recipe to make perfect "hot, crusty cream cheese explosions."
- Amy's Pretzel Fried Chicken featured on the Dramatic Pancake makes the indulgent classic healthier while maintaining all the essential crunchiness (and deliciousness).
- It's hot dog season, and The Weekend Chef is optimizing the dog's grilling potential with spiral cuts. Is this a trick to try at your next cookout?
- National Fried Chicken Day is over, but it's always (well, almost always) a good time to chow down on the crispy Southern dish.
- Kelsey shows us how to make gooey and decadent Pecan Cinnamon Rolls.
- Bourbon is a fantastic addition to many things, including German chocolate cake.


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When Aaron Barr was finalizing a recent computer security presentation for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, a colleague had a bit of good-natured advice for him: "Scare the shit out of them!"
In retrospect, this may not have been the advice Barr needed. As CEO of the government-focused infosec company HBGary Federal, Barr had to bring in big clients — and quickly — as the startup business hemorrhaged cash. To do so, he had no problem with trying to "scare the sh*t out of them." When working with a major DC law firm in late 2010 on a potential deal involving social media, for instance, Barr decided that scraping Facebook to stalk a key partner and his family might be a good idea. When he sent his law firm contact a note filled with personal information about the partner, his wife, her family and her photography business, the result was immediate.
"Thanks. I am not sure I will share what you sent last night — he might freak out."
This rather creepy behavior became common; Barr used it as a sign of his social media prowess. Another target of his investigations went to "a Jewish Church in DC, the Temple Micah." Someone else "married @ the Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels, MD (non-denominational ceremony)." Barr was even willing to helpfully guesstimate the ages of children in photographs ("they have 2 kids, son and daughter look to be 7 and 4").
With one potential client, Barr sifted the man's social media data and then noted that "I am tempted to create a person from his highschool and send him a request, but that might be overstepping it."
As the money ran out on HBGary Federal, Barr increasingly had no problem "overstepping it." In November, when a major U.S. bank wanted a strategy for taking down WikiLeaks, Barr immediately drafted a presentation in which he suggested "cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters. This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France, putting a team together to get access is more straightforward."
Faking documents seemed like a good idea, too, documents which could later be "called out" so as to make WikiLeaks look unreliable.
And Barr wanted to go further, pushing on people like civil liberties Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald — apparently hoping to threaten their livelihoods. "These are established professionals that have a liberal bent, but ultimately most of them if pushed will choose professional preservation over cause, such is the mentality of most business professionals," he wrote. "Without the support of people like Glenn WikiLeaks would fold."
When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wanted to look into some of its opponents, Barr teamed with two other security companies and went nuts, proposing that the Chamber create an absurdly expensive "fusion cell" of the kind "developed and utilized by Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)" — and costing $2 million a month. And if the fusion cell couldn't turn up enough opposition research, the security firms would be happy to create honeypot websites to lure the Chamber's union-loving opponents in order to grab more data from them.
The security companies even began grabbing tweets from liberal activists and mapping the connections between people using advanced link analysis software most often used by the intelligence community. (Some of the Chamber material was unearthed by ThinkProgress and other liberal bloggers, while The Tech Herald and Crowdleaks.org first wrote about the proposed WikiLeaks attacks.)
While waiting to see if his proposals would result in work for HBGary Federal, Barr turned in January to unmask the leadership of the hacker collective Anonymous. This part of the story is well known by now (read our investigative feature): when Barr went public with his findings, Anonymous took down his website, stole his e-mails, deleted the company's backup data, trashed Barr's Twitter account and remotely wiped his iPad.
In the days since the attack and the publication of Barr's e-mails, his partners at other security firms threw him under the bus. "I have directed the company to sever any and all contacts with HB Gary," said the CEO of Palantir.
Berico Technologies, another private security firm, said that it "does not condone or support any effort that proactively targets American firms, organizations or individuals. We find such actions reprehensible and are deeply committed to partnering with the best companies in our industry that share our core values. Therefore, we have discontinued all ties with HBGary Federal."
Glenn Greenwald unleashed both barrels of his own, claiming that "what is set forth in these proposal… quite possibly constitutes serious crimes. Manufacturing and submitting fake documents with the intent they be published likely constitutes forgery and fraud. Threatening the careers of journalists and activists in order to force them to be silent is possibly extortion and, depending on the specific means to be used, constitutes other crimes as well. Attacking WikiLeaks' computer infrastructure in an attempt to compromise their sources undoubtedly violates numerous cyber laws."
How did Barr, a man with long experience in security and intelligence, come to spend his days as a CEO e-stalking clients and their wives on Facebook? Why did he start performing "reconnaissance" on the largest nuclear power company in the United States? Why did he suggest pressuring corporate critics to shut up, even as he privately insisted that corporations "suck the lifeblood out of humanity"? And why did he launch his ill-fated investigation into Anonymous, one which may well have destroyed his company and damaged his career?
Thanks to his leaked e-mails, the downward spiral is easy enough to retrace. Barr was under tremendous pressure to bring in cash, pressure which began on Nov. 23, 2009.
"A" players attract "A" players
That's when Barr started the CEO job at HBGary Federal. Its parent company, the security firm HBGary, wanted a separate firm to handle government work and the clearances that went with it, and Barr was brought in from Northrup Grumman to launch the operation.
In an e-mail announcing Barr's move, HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund told his company that "these two are A+ players in the DoD contracting space and are able to 'walk the halls' in customer spaces. Some very big players made offers to Ted and Aaron last week, and instead they chose HBGary. This reflects extremely well on our company. 'A' players attract 'A' players."
Barr at first loved the job. In December, he sent an e-mail at 1:30am; it was the "3rd night in a row I have woken up in the middle of the night and can't sleep because my mind is racing. It's nice to be excited about work, but I need some sleep."
Barr had a huge list of contacts, but turning those contacts into contracts for government work with a fledgling company proved challenging. Less than a year into the job, HBGary Federal looked like it might go bust.
On Oct. 3, 2010, HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund told Aaron that "we should have a pow-wow about the future of HBGary Federal. [HBGary President] Penny and I both agree that it hasn't really been a success… You guys are basically out of money and none of the work you had planned has come in."
Aaron agreed. "This has not worked out as any of us have planned to date and we are nearly out of money," he said.
While he worked on government contracts, Barr drummed up a little business doing social media training for corporations using, in one of his slides, a bit of research into one Steven Paul Jobs.
The training sessions, following the old "scare the sh*t out of them" approach, showed people just how simple it was to dredge up personal information by correlating data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. At $1,000 per person, the training could pull in tens of thousands of dollars a day, but it was sporadic. More was needed; contracts were needed, preferably multi-year ones.
The parent company also had issues. A few weeks after the discussions about closing up HBGary Federal, HBGary President Penny Leavy-Hoglund (Greg's wife), sent an e-mail to her sales team, telling them "to work a quota and to bring in revenue in a timely manner. It's not 'optional' as to when it needs to close, if you haven't met your number, the closing needs to happen now, not later. You need to live, eat, breath and ensure you meet your number, not kind of hit it, MEET IT… Guys, no one is making their quota."
She concluded darkly, "I have some serious doubts about some people's ability to do their job. There will be changes coming shortly and those decisions will be new people's to make."
And then, unexpectedly, came the hope of salvation.
"Bond, Q, and Monneypenny"
By October 2010, Barr was under considerable stress. His CEO job was under threat, and the e-mails show that the specter of divorce loomed over his personal life.
On Oct. 19, a note arrived. HBGary Federal might be able to provide part of "a complete intelligence solution to a law firm that approached us." That law firm was DC-based powerhouse Hunton & Williams, which boasted 1,000 attorneys and terrific contacts. They had a client who wanted to do a little corporate investigative work, and three small security firms thought they might band together to win the deal.
Palantir would provide its expensive link analysis software running on a hosted server, while Berico would "prime the contract supplying the project management, development resources and process/methodology development." HBGary Federal would come alongside to provide "digital intelligence collection" and "social media exploitation" — Barr's strengths.
Team Themis logo
The three companies needed a name for their joint operation. One early suggestion: a "Corporate Threat Analysis Cell." Eventually, a sexier name was chosen: Team Themis.
Barr went to work immediately, tracking down all the information he could find on the team's H&W contact. This was the result of few hours' work:
A bit of what I have on [redacted]. He was hard to find on Facebook as he has taken some precautions to be found. He isn't even linked with his wife but I found him. I also have a list of his friends and have defined an angle if I was to target him. He has attachment to UVA, a member of multiple associations dealing with IP, e-discovery, and nearly all of this facebook friends are of people from high school. So I would hit him from one of these three angles. I am tempted to create a person from his highschool and send him a request, but that might be overstepping it. I don't want to embarrass him, so I think I will just talk about it and he can decide for himself if I would have been successful or not.
Team Themis didn't quite understand what H&W wanted them to do, so Barr's example was simply a way to show "expertise." But it soon became clear what this was about: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wanted to know if certain groups attacking them were "astroturf" groups funded by the large unions.
"They further suspect that most of the actions and coordination take place through online means — forums, blogs, message boards, social networking and other parts of the 'deep web,'" a team member explained later. "But they want to marry those online, 'cyber' sources with traditional open source data-tax records, fundraising records, donation records, letters of incorporation, etc. I believe they want to trace all the way from board structure down to the individuals carrying out actions."
H&W was putting together a proposal for the Chamber, work that Team Themis hoped to win. (It remains unclear how much the Chamber knew about any of this; it claimed later never to have paid a cent either to Team Themis or to H&W in this matter.)
Barr's plan was to dig up data from background checks, LexisNexis, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums and web searches and dump it into Palantir for analysis. Hopefully, the tool could shed light on connections between the various anti-Chamber forces.
Once that was done, Team Themis staffers could start churning out intelligence reports for the Chamber. The team wrote up a set of "sample reports" filled with action ideas like:
- Create a false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information, and monitor to see if U.S. Chamber Watch acquires it. Afterward, present explicit evidence proving that such transactions never occurred. Also, create a fake insider persona and generate communications with [union-backed Change to Win]. Afterward, release the actual documents at a specified time and explain the activity as a CtW contrived operation.
- If needed, create two fake insider personas, using one as leverage to discredit the other while confirming the legitimacy of the second. Such work is complicated, but a well-thought out approach will give way to a variety of strategies that can sufficiently aid the formation of vetting questions U.S. Chamber Watch will likely ask.
- Create a humor piece about the leaders of CtW.
The whole team had been infected with some kind of spy movie virus, one which led them to think in terms of military intelligence operations and ham-handed attacks. The attitude could be seen in e-mails which exhorted Team Themis to "make [H&W] think that we are Bond, Q, and Moneypenny all packaged up with a bow."
Two million a month
But what to charge for this cloak-and-dagger work? Some team members worried that the asking price for an initial deployment was too high for H&W; someone else fired back, "Their client is loaded!" Besides, that money would buy access to Palantir, Berico, and "super sleuth Aaron Barr."
As the Team Themis proposal went to one of the top H&W lawyers for potential approval, Barr continued his social media dumpster diving. He dug up information on H&W employees, Chamber opponents, even the H&W partner whose approval was needed to move this proposal forward. That last bit of data collection, which Barr sent on to H&W, led to the e-mail about how it might "freak out" the partner.
Barr's investigation in an H&W partner
If the deal came through, Barr told his HBGary colleagues, it might salvage the HBGary Federal business. "This will put us in a healthy position to chart our direction with a healthy war chest," he wrote.
Indeed it would; Team Themis decided to ask for $2 million per month, for six months, for the first phase of the project, putting $500,000 to $700,000 per month in HBGary Federal's pocket.
But the three companies disagreed about how to split the pie. In the end, Palantir agreed to take less money, but that decision had to go "way up the chain (as you can imagine)," wrote the Palantir contact for Team Themis. "The short of it is that we got approval from Dr. Karp and the Board to go ahead with the modified 40/30/30 breakdown proposed. These were not fun conversations, but we are committed to this team and we can optimize the cost structure in the long term (let's demonstrate success and then take over this market :))."
The leaders at the very top of Palantir were aware of the Team Themis work, though the details of what was being proposed by Barr may well have escaped their notice. Palantir wasn't kidding around with this contract; if selected by H&W and the Chamber, Palantir planned to staff the project with an experienced intelligence operative, a man who "ran the foreign fighter campaign on the Syrian border in 2005 to stop the flow of suicide bombers into Baghdad and helped to ensure a successful Iraqi election. As a commander, [he] ran the entire intelligence cycle: identified high-level terrorists, planned missions to kill or capture them, led the missions personally, then exploited the intelligence and evidence gathered on target to defeat broader enemy networks."
(Update: a reader points to additional emails which suggest that the "foreign fighter campaign" operative would not actually be working on the Team Themis project. Instead, Berico and Palantir would list him and another top person as "key personnel," drawing on their "creds to show our strengths," but might actually staff the project with others.)
"I don't think we can make it any further"
But the cash, which "will seem like money falling from the sky for those of us used to working in the govt sector," was not forthcoming. H&W didn't make a decision in November. Barr began to worry.
"All things we are chasing continue to get pushed to the right or just hang in limbo," he wrote. "I don't think we can make it any further. We are behind in our taxes trying to keep us afloat until a few things came through, but they are not happening fast enough." He noted that Palantir was asking "way too much money" from H&W.
As the weeks dragged on, Team Themis decided to lower its price. It sent an e-mail to H&W, saying that the three companies were "prepared to offer our services as Team Themis at a significantly lower cost (much closer to the original "Phase I" proposed costs). Does this sound like a more reasonable range in terms of pricing?"
But before H&W made a decision on Chamber of Commerce plan, it had another urgent request for Team Themis: a major U.S. bank had come to H&W seeking help against WikiLeaks (the bank has been widely assumed to be Bank of America, which has long been rumored to be a future WikiLeaks target.)
"We want to sell this team as part of what we are talking about," said the team's H&W contact. "I need a favor. I need five to six slides on Wikileaks — who they are, how they operate and how this group may help this bank. Please advise if you can help get me something ASAP. My call is at noon."
"Attack their weak points"
By 11:30pm on the evening of Dec. 2, Barr had cranked out a PowerPoint presentation. It called for "disinformation," "cyber attacks," and a "media campaign" against WikiLeaks.
What could HBGary Federal do?
- Computer Network Attack/Exploitation
- Influence and Deception Operations
- Social Media Collection, Analysis, Exploitation
- Digital Media Forensic Analysis
This attack capability wasn't mere bluster. HBGary had long publicized to clients its cache of zero-day exploits — attacks for which there is no existing patch. A slide from a year earlier showed that HBGary claimed unpublished zero-day exploits in everything from Flash to Java to Windows 2000.
Another slide made clear that the company had expertise in "computer network attack," "custom malware development," and "persistent software implants."
In October 2010, HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund had tossed out a random idea for Barr, one that did not apparently seem unusual: "I suggest we create a large set of unlicensed windows-7 themes for video games and movies appropriate for middle east & asia. These theme packs would contain back doors."
Barr's ideas about WikiLeaks went beyond attacks on their infrastructure. He wrote in a separate document that WikiLeaks was having trouble getting money because its payment sources were being blocked. "Also need to get people to understand that if they support the organization we will come after them," he wrote. "Transaction records are easily identifiable."
As an idea that Barr knew was being prepared for a major U.S. bank, the suggestion is chilling. Barr also reiterated the need to "get to the Swedish document submission server" that allowed people to upload leaked documents.
At 7:30am the next morning, Barr had another great idea — find some way to make WikiLeaks supporters like Glenn Greenwald feel like their jobs might be at stake for supporting the organization.
"One other thing," he wrote in his morning message. "I think we need to highlight people like Glenn Greenwald. Glenn was critical in the Amazon to OVH [data center] transition and helped WikiLeaks provide access to information during the transition. It is this level of support we need to attack. These are established professionals that have a liberal bent, but ultimately most of them if pushed will choose professional preservation over cause, such is the mentality of most business professionals. Without the support of people like Glenn WikiLeaks would fold."
This seems an absurd claim on a number of levels, but it also upped the "creep factor" dramatically. Barr was now suggesting that a major U.S. corporation find ways to lean on a civil liberties lawyer who held a particular view of WikiLeaks, pressuring him into silence on the topic. Barr, the former Navy SIGINT officer who had traveled around the world to defend the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, had no apparent qualms about his idea.
"Discontinued all ties with HBGary Federal"
The fallout rained down quickly enough. In January, with H&W still not signing off on any big-dollar deals, Barr decided to work on a talk for the BSides security conference in San Francisco. He hoped to build on all of the social media work he was doing to identify the main participants in the Anonymous hacker collective — and by doing so to drum up business.
The decision seems to have stemmed from Barr's work on WikiLeaks. Anonymous defended WikiLeaks on several occasions in 2010, even attacking the websites of Visa and MasterCard when the companies refused to process WikiLeaks donations. But Barr also liked the thrill of chasing a dangerous quarry.
For instance, to make his point about the vulnerabilities of social media, Barr spent some time in 2010 digging into the power company Exelon and its U.S. nuclear plants. "I am going to target the largest nuclear operator in the United States, Exelon, and I am going to do a social media targeted collection, reconnaissance against them," he wrote.
Once Barr had his social media map of connections, he could attack. As he wrote elsewhere:
Example. If I want to gain access to the Exelon plant up in Pottsdown PA I only have to go as far as LinkedIn to identify Nuclear engineers being employed by Exelon in that location. Jump over to Facebook to start doing link analysis and profiling. Add data from twitter and other social media services. I have enough information to develop a highly targeted exploitation effort.
I can and have gained access to various government and government contractor groups in the social media space using this technique (more detailed but you get the point). Given that people work from home, access home services from work — getting access to the target is just a matter of time and nominal effort.
Knowing about a target's spouse and college and business and friends makes it relatively easy to engage in a "spear phishing" attack against that person — say, a fake e-mail from an old friend, in which the target eventually reveals useful information.
Ironically, when Anonymous later commandeered Greg Hoglund's separate security site rootkit.com, it did so through a spear phishing e-mail attack on Hoglund's site administrator — who promptly turned off the site's defenses and issued a new password ("Changeme123") for a user he believed was Hoglund. Minutes later, the site was compromised.
After the Anonymous attacks and the release of Barr's e-mails, his partners furiously distanced themselves from Barr's work. Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp wrote, "We do not provide — nor do we have any plans to develop — offensive cyber capabilities… The right to free speech and the right to privacy are critical to a flourishing democracy. From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties. Furthermore, personally and on behalf of the entire company, I want to publicly apologize to progressive organizations in general, and Mr. Greenwald in particular, for any involvement that we may have had in these matters."
Berico said (PDF) that it "does not condone or support any effort that proactively targets American firms, organizations or individuals. We find such actions reprehensible and are deeply committed to partnering with the best companies in our industry that share our core values. Therefore, we have discontinued all ties with HBGary Federal."
But both of the Team Themis leads at these companies knew exactly what was being proposed (such knowledge may not have run to the top). They saw Barr's e-mails, and they used his work. His ideas on attacking WikiLeaks made it almost verbatim into a Palantir slide about "proactive tactics."
And Palantir had no problem scraping tweets from union supporters and creating linkages from them.
As for targeting American organizations, it was a Berico analyst who sent out the Team Themis "sample reports," the documents suggesting that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce create false documents and false personae in its effort to "discredit the organization" U.S. Chamber Watch.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce expressed shock when the Team Themis work came to light. "We're incredulous that anyone would attempt to associate such activities with the Chamber as we've seen today from the Center for American Progress," said Tom Collamore on Feb. 10. "The security firm referenced by ThinkProgress was not hired by the Chamber or by anyone else on the Chamber's behalf. We have never seen the document in question nor has it ever been discussed with us."
Indeed, the meeting between H&W and the Chamber on this issue was set to take place today, Feb. 14. On Feb. 11, the Chamber went further, issuing a new statement saying that "it never hired or solicited proposals from HBGary, Palantir or Berico, the security firms being talked about on the web … The leaked e-mails appear to show that HBGary was willing to propose questionable actions in an attempt to drum up business, but the Chamber was not aware of these proposals until HBGary's e-mails leaked."
"No money, for any purpose, was paid to any of those three private security firms by the Chamber, or by anyone on behalf of the Chamber, including Hunton & Williams."
As for Hunton & Williams, they have yet to comment publicly. On Feb. 7, however, the firm celebrated its top ranking in Computerworld's report on "Best Privacy Advisers."


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Pop singer Justin Timberlake has signed on as the new Creative Director of beverage brand Bud Light Platinum.
The Social Network actor will serve as a musical and cultural consultant for the beer company and star in an advert, called Platinum Night.
The clip will feature his new single Suit & Tie and air on Sunday (10Feb13) during the Grammy Awards, where Timberlake is set to perform - and the 32 year old is excited about his new position.
A statement from Timberlake reads, "Bud Light Platinum brings a refined, discerning aesthetic to beer that plays well with what I'm doing. I'm looking forward to not only being a part of the creative process, but in bringing other talented musicians to the forefront as well."
Meanwhile, marketing executive Paul Chibe insists the SexyBack singer will bring a lot to the table, adding, "Justin Timberlake is one of the greatest creative minds in the entertainment industry, and his insights will help us further define Bud Light Platinum's identity in the lifestyle space.
"Since launching Bud Light Platinum last year (12), we've worked to align the brand closely with music, including leveraging tracks by Kanye West and Avicii in our first ads. Partnering with Justin as he makes his return to music brings a new level of relevance and credibility to the brand."
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"Beowulf" Station Rotation: An Epic Activity
Lesson 7 of 7
Objective: SWBAT construct meaning from various grammatical, historical, and literary connections to Beowulf by working through a station rotation activity.
This is lesson 7 of 8 in the Beowulf Unit.
Although I taught the lesson in one class period, it is a lesson designed to take two periods for those who want their students to complete each station.
In this lesson students
- Are introduced to each station in the rotation;
- Rotate among five of the nine stations during one class period or among all nine stations in a two-day rotation cycle.
Classroom Set-Up:
To make this lesson work, the teacher must have all materials prepared in advance, must have the desks set up in small groups (I had three students in each group, although 29 are enrolled in the class), and must have materials placed on the desks when students enter the room.
Sections in the Lesson:
I have put a section for each station in this lesson plan for a couple of reasons: 1. It's easier to keep each station organized separately; 2. Each of the stations is easily adapted to a separate day's work for those choosing to use them that way.
Stops Along the Route
Students' entrance ticket into class is the handout Station Rotation Activity that explains today's activity and lists the nine stations.
At the bell, I briefly explain each station, although I have put directions at each station.
- First Stop: Blood Feuds in Beowulf and Beyond: I tell students that they will explore the top 15 blood feuds in our nation's history and draw parallels to Beowulf.
- Second Stop: Beowulf: Christian vs. Pagan: Students read lines from the epic and create a T chart that identifies the diction referring to pagan ideas on one side and those referring to Christian ideas on the other.
- Third Stop: "Did Britain Wreck the World?": This is a Newsweek article excerpt that lists some legacies from British Imperialism. Students discuss and respond to the question the article poses in a short paragraph.
- Fourth Stop: Beowulf: The Case of the First Three Lines: Students determine which translation they prefer and explain why. Additionally, they compare and contrast the various ways three translators translate various phrasing from the epic. Students complete graphic organizers for each of the activities.
- Fifth Stop: Translating Old English into Our New English: Just Write It!: On one side of the paper is Old English, but before looking on the back for the English equivalent, students "translate" the Old English based on their "educated guesses"!
- Sixth Stop: Who or Whom? That is the Question: This is a grammar exercise not directly connected to Beowulf, but it is important that students understand grammar for both reading and writing purposes.
- Seventh Stop: Alliteration Application: Students review alliteration by identifying alliteration in W. H. Auden's poem "The Age of Anxiety."
- Eighth Stop: Positively Groovy Appositives: From the Purdue Online Writing Laboratory, students read about appositives and appositive phrases and complete a short exercise. The exercise is important to Beowulf because the epic is written in appositional style, meaning it is full of appositives and appositive phrases.
- Ninth Stop: Good Night, Brave Beowulf: Eulogizing a Fallen Hero: It's only fitting that we end our journey through the stations with the final tribute to Beowulf as students learn about the eulogy, lamenting, and elegies.
The automatic slide presentation here shows both students working together and some of their work during the activity:
Following this section is a detailed section about each of the stops listed above. Within each section teachers will find"
- A detailed explanation of each stop.
- Resources for each stop.
- Student examples and and images.
Remember: The teacher can use each section as a stand-alone lesson or in combination w/ any of the others. This is a very flexible lesson!
Resources (1)
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I found a website with "The 15 Deadliest Blood Feuds in United States History" and put them into a document for students to use. Because the document is long, I made only one copy for students to share, which worked just fine.THE 15 DEADLIEST BLOOD FEUDS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY. I did make enough copies of the instructions for students to each have a copy when the station was full.Blood Feuds Instructions. A Student Talks about Blood Feuds in "Beowulf"
Beowulf: Christian vs. Pagan
I have used the Christian vs. Pagan activity as a stand-alone lesson. This time I included it in the station rotation and advised students that the concept would be on the traditional assessment. Beowulf Christian or Pagan. presents the lines that I put on notecards for ease of use both in the station and as a line-tossing activity.Student Notes: Christian vs. Pagan Students Discussing Christian vs. Pagan Diction in "Beowulf"
The study of Beowulf isn't too early for students to begin considering the impact of British Colonialism on the rest of the world. Did Britain Wreck the World. Students, however, tended to think they could only base their response on the document I provided. "Did Britain Destroy the World" Student Response I asked several groups if they could think of any positive contributions from Great Britain. They gave me a "deer in the headlight" look. I suggested that they think about the British Invasion. Nothing. I then mentioned music--The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Lorde--and they begin to see my point. I suggested that we owe the Brits much for their contribution to music, theater, and literature.
This is another activity that works as a stand-alone lesson. It is also one that's easy for students to do in the station rotation activity because the directions are straight-forward. I enjoy seeing students wrestle with the translation they like best and compare the various ways translators interpret language. Beowulf 3 Lines translations Student Work: "Beowulf": The Case of the First Three Lines
This activity really stumped students. They actually thought I expected them to know Old English! Ha! I had to confess that I don't know Old English but that they could figure out some of the words and just have fun creating. They liked that idea. I gave them Translating Old English Directions. And the document Beowulf_old_english with the beowulf modern on the back but instructed them not to look until after they tried to translate the OE.Translating Old English
Resources (5)
I decided to weave some grammar into the lesson, which I do in brief vignettes in class from time to time if it is supported by the literature, which is the case with the "Who or Whom" assignment. The station activity allowed me to work with students in small groups and make the grammar low-key. Students had a chance to talk to one another about their responses, too. Who vs. whom.
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Alliteration Application
Since alliteration is so important to Beowulf and a relatively easy rhetorical device to use when playing with language, I wanted to see if students could work with alliteration in a text other than Beowulf. Some needed a brief refresher about alliteration referring to sounds and not letters, and I was able to share with them the idea that college professors will often talk about vowel sounds alliterating in Old English as well as consonant sounds. I used the Auden poem "Age of Anxiety, The" because it is packed with alliteration. Alliteration Student Work shows one student's coded text.
Resources (2)
Beowulf is written in "appositional style," meaning the appositives and appositive phrases function both as a formulaic device in the poem and as a mnemonic for the Anglo Saxon poet, the scop. Thus, having students work with appositives and reading about them is very fitting to Beowulf. The students actually work well in small grammar groups. The document with the colored arrows is from the Purdue OWL. I like the way it color codes and visualizes appositives. APositivelyGroovyWorksheetonAppositives. I asked students to complete a short exercise Appositive Exercise independently and to work together to build sentences with appositives Students Creating Sentences with Appositive Phrases.
Rather than defining the terms eulogy, lament, eulogize in a lecture. I gave students the terms in the station rotation and noted that this station is important because of the upcoming summative assessment. It's easy for students to learn the terms when they can associate them with the short passage from the epic. Eulogizing Beowulf, Lament and eulogize, Elegy
I made this the final station because the event that is its focus is at the end of the epic. Eulogizing Beowulf Student Work


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AstraZeneca shakeup ousts commercial, R&D chiefs
AstraZeneca jettisoned its global head of commercial operations and R&D chief, eliminating their roles and curtly suctioning off the company's second-highest layer of management.
Shown the door were Tony Zook, EVP global commercial and Martin Mackay, president of research and development. They will leave the company at the end of the month, according to an anodyne AstraZeneca release. In their place, the company installed two trios of execs. On the commercial side, Paul Hudson became EVP North America, Ruud Dobber EVP Europe and Mark Mallon EVP, International. For R&D, Mene Pangalaos will serve as EVP Innovative Medicines, Briggs Morrison as EVP Global Medicines Development and Bahija Jallal EVP MedImmune. A new position, EVP global portfolio and product strategy, will be filled at a later date and will serve as a "bridge" between commercial and development.
The structure "enables us to bring an even sharper management focus to key pipeline assets, key brands and key markets, and helps us further accelerate decision-making," said CEO Pascal Soriot, who joined the firm from Roche last year, in a statement.
The restructure comes as the company, built on mass-market blockbusters, girds for the expiration of US patents on most of its remaining stable of breadwinners. Seroquel IR, which brought in $3.3 billion in the US for 2011, lost US exclusivity last year (the XR formulation lapses in 2017), and the main patent on $845 million Symbicort follows next year. Nexium ($2.3 billion in 2011 US sales), goes off-patent in 2015, and Crestor ($2.5 billion) loses patent protection in 2016.
"When they don't have those drugs, they have to buckle up and make changes," said an agency exec. "At a certain scale, it's all about how do you feed the beast."
AstraZeneca has, in the past, trumpeted a go-it-alone strategy, largely eschewing acquisitions (the 2007 purchase of MedImmune aside) and in-licensing in favor of internal development, but with the worst of the firm's patent cliff approaching and a string of R&D disappointments in recent years, that strategy hasn't yet panned out. Even before Soriot's appointment last August, change was in the air. In April, the Anglo-Swedish firm announced its acquisition of Ardea Biosciences, a San Diego biotech with a promising gout treatment in development, for $1 billion, and in June, AstraZeneca deepened its partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb on the diabetes portfolio of Amylin to the tune of $3.5 billion